James SCHOFIELD b. in Ireland his wife Mary McIntyre was born in Ireland also. They had my Great Grandmother Sarah Jane SCHOFIELD in Glasgow, Scotland abt. 1838 Mary died giving birth to Sarah. James gave Sarah to her Aunt and Uncle: Henry CROSSLEY and his wife Jane McIntyre CROSSLEY to raise.
James left for Oshawa, Ontario, Canada to open up Schofield Weaving Mills. A note that I have says it was one of the Schofields Weaving Mills was built in 1872. Later purchased by J. Schofield in 1892 when he incorporated Schofield Woolen Co.They say James Schofield founded the town of Schofield, Canada. James remarried and had more children, John Schofield being one of their children. James had 3 Weaving Mills in Ontario, Canada.
Sarah married William SHORT they emigrated to Philadelphia, Pa. in 1880. Sarah and William had my Grandfather Albert Edward Short. My Grandfather was the first of his family born in America.

Newfoundland surname connections arriving in Montreal between 1880 – 1903:
Roberts in NL since 1800s
Ralph in NL since 1800s
Rose in NL since 1800s
Rowe in NL since 1800s
Davis in NL since 1850s
Murphy in NL since 1850s
McDonald in NL since 1850s
Mack in NL since 1850s
Aspell in NL since 1850s
Noseworthy in NL since 1850s

I’m of Acadien and Québécois ancestry. As such I have many relatives that arrived at Port Royal at the start of 1600s and to Beaubassin when it began. As such a few of mine are:
Pierre Cyr abt 1640 – Port Royal and Beaubassin areas
Pierre Parenteau 1666 – Montreal, Quebec areas.
Madeleine Tesserand 1673, who is a “Daughter of the King.”

I’m proud of my heritage and of all the history my ancestors have taken part in, except for that event in 1755. In this day of social networking, my cousins are closer than ever! Je me souviens!

Hi Janet….My Great Great Grandfather is John Muir b. 1812 married Anna Stehr, they had my Great Grandmother Johanna MUIR who married William A. BROWN they had my Grandfather Alfred Budd Brown. Johanna and William Brown lived in Burlington Co., NJ. Wonder if there is a connection?
Sue

All of my French/Canadian direct ancestors had left Canada by 1867 but I go back to Louis Hebert and family who were the first white settlers/farmers in Quebec and Abraham Martin(third settler in Quebec) for whom the Plains of Abraham were named. My Demers ancestors came over in the mid 1600’s. They built a 3 story house in Quebec City which was destroyed by Wolfe’s cannons in 1759 but rebuilt and it still stands in the old town of QC! I also have about 28 filles du roi as ancestors. Most of my ancestors were in Quebec by the mid 1600’s! My direct ancestors left Quebec in the mid 1800’s for the US and my Scottish ancestors (Great Grandparents) didn’t come over until 1874 and 1900.

I thought you needed some Nova Scotia content! Some dates are approximate and names of locations are where primary settlement occurred. Have among them a Loyalist, a Foreign Protestant, a Mayflower descendant, and of course a Scot emigrating to Cape Breton! Couldn’t be more Nova Scotia than that…

Hi Beverly, I have been researching my Latimer ancestors and noticed you have listed Letitia Latimer. She is on my family tree. There are also Armstrongs on my tree. I am wandering if you have information about the Latimers and there immigration to Canada. As far as I can tell they are from Ireland.

Thanks for posting – I had fun looking at my ancestors who were witness to Canada’s confederation event. Many earlier ancestors paved the way for these ancestors. Earliest arrivals were 1784 as United Empire Loyalists.

This was quite the challenge, but I think I’ve got it all the ancestors who were living in Canada in 1867!
Jemima (Hall) Rath, came about 1840 from Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland, settled first in Elizabethtown Township, Leeds County, Upper Canada
Joseph Rath, born 1846 in Elizabethtown Township, Leeds County, Canada West
Jonathan Capstick, Christopher Capstick & Alice (Thornbeck) Capstick, came about 1842 from Kendal, Westmorland, England, settled first in Scarborough Township, Canada West
Hiram Abiff Fifield, came about 1838 from New Hampshire, settled in North Dorchester Township, Middlesex County, Upper Canada
Eliza Black, born 1822 in New Brunswick, British Colony
Anthony Allison, came before 1836 from Yorkshire, England, settled first in Scarborough Township, Upper Canada
Jane (Beswick) Allison, came before 1836 from Yorkshire, England, settled first in Scarborough Township, Upper Canada
William Allison, born in 1841 in Canada West
Henry Beer & Elizabeth (Morrish) Beer, came in the 1840s from Devon, England, settled first in Perth County, Upper Canada
Clara Ellen (Beer) Allison, born in 1859 in Perth County, Canada West
Thomas Stainton, Richard Stainton & Ellen (Tomlinson) Stainton, came in 1844 from Westmorland, England
James Albert Stainton, born in 1863 in Canada West
Sarah McIntosh, came before 1830 from the highlands of Scotland (possibly Inverness), settled first in Quebec
Nathaniel Sloman, came about 1843 from Cornwall, England, settled in Perth County, Canada West
Catherine (Mallett) Bond, came between 1841 and 1846 from Devon, England, settled first in Waterloo County, Canada West
William Bond, came between 1841 and 1846 from Devon, England, settled in Waterloo County, Canada West
Grace (Johns) Bond, about 1851 from Devon, England, settled in Waterloo County
John Henry Bond, born in 1861 in Canada West
George Wall & Caroline (Boyce) Wall, about 1848 from Somerset, England, settled in Brant County, Canada West
Eliza Alberta Wall, born in 1864 in Brant County, Canada West
Thomas Joslyn Kempthorne, Richard Kempthorne & Mary (Johns) Kempthorne, came in 1867 from Cornwall, England, first settled in Brant County, Canada West
Francis Noble & Bethiah Patience (Aulsebrooke) Noble, came about 1833 from Lincoln, England, settled in Brant County, Upper Canada
Levi Noble, born in 1834 in Brant County, Upper Canada
Joseph Dickinson & Sarah (Russell) Dickinson, came about 1850 from New York State, USA, settled in Brant County, Canada West
Harriet Ann (Dickinson) Noble, came about 1850 from New York State, USA, first settled in Brant County, Canada West
Sarah Bethia Noble, born in 1867 in Ontario

John Carter was born in England in 1832 and came to Canada approximately 1834. His wife Margaret Ann Storey was born in 1833 in Ireland and came to Canada approximatley 1847. They were married and had the following children in between 1849 and 1867.
Francis Janie born in 1854
Mary Ann born in 1856
John born in 1858
Joseph born in 1861
William born in 1862
Catherine born in 1866
David born in 1867

My Eisler clan was here before 1867

My Hoegy clan was here before 1867

My Muegge clan was here before 1867

My Regele clan was here before 1867

My Taman clan was here during the war of 1812 coming around 1814 as retired officers of the English army that had fought against Napoleon.

The rest of the people are to numerous to post but several generations back have been here since the mid 1840’s coming from England, Ireland and Germany.

My 2nd cousin 5x removed, Joseph Peters, was born in Quebec in 1779. His parents immigrated from the US not long before his birth, and the youngest two children were born in Quebec.

My gg grandmother was born in NY, the 4th youngest of 19 children, and the oldest 5 were born in NY, and the rest in Canada, the first in 1800. Parents John Card Sr. and Mary ‘Polly’ Brown.

My 2nd great grandfather Levi Dorland was born 1817 in Prince Edward County.

My 2nd great grandfather, Joseph Watson, immigrated from England to Kingston area in 1830, and my great aunt was born 23 Feb 1837 • Portland Township, Frontenac.

My 3rd great grandfather, Joseph Peters, born in Connecticut in 1772, immigrated to Upper Canada in 1793, married there in 1795, and they had 13 children from 1796 to 1820.

My 3rd great grandfather, Caleb Brown, was born 1783, in NY. He married there in 1804. He died in 1868 in Camden East, Lennox Addington, Ontario, Canada, and is buried in the Quaker cemetery in Moscow, Ontario.. He immigrated to Canada about 1828, as one of his sons died 29 Sep 1829, and is buried in Moscow, Ontario, and his youngest child was born 1819 in NY.

Following is a summary of some of my direct ancestors who came to, came through or had been born in Canada when the British North America Act, 1867 was passed. It was an interesting exercise, one I not thought of doing before – looking at who was present in one region at one point in time in the past. The full story is on my own blog post at Discover Genealogy.

Many of my ancestors came to Canada directly from the British Isles. Gilbert and Margaret (Maitland) Anderson, my 3rd great-grandparents, arrived in Lanark County, Upper Canada from Stirlingshire, Scotland in 1832, with five children. They had another seven, all born in Lanark. From there they moved to Huron County. Gilbert died in Kippen, Huron County in 1871; Margaret also died there in 1886.

My Scottish-born 2nd great-grandfather, Robert Anderson, met his wife, Susan Phillipo, my 2nd great-grandparents, in Brant County, Canada West. They married in Brantford in 1854. Susan’s parents, John and Mary (Manson) Phillipo, also my 3rd great-grandparents, had come over from England in 1838 with three children. They had another four in Brantford. John and Mary died in Brantford in the 1880s.

My great-grandmother, Margaret Mary Anderson, was born in Goderich, Huron County, Canada West, in 1857, as were her ten siblings. The family moved to North Dakota Territory, USA, in 1881. Robert and Susan died and were buried in Ransom County, North Dakota, she in 1905 and he in 1912.

Margaret Mary Anderson met Newton Isaac Thompson, my great-grandfather, in North Dakota and they married there in 1884. Newton had been born in Dunnville, Haldimand County, Canada West, in 1859, and had come to the US with several family members in 1879.

Newton’s father, John T. Thompson immigrated to Upper Canada around 1835. He met his wife, Elizabeth Emerson, near Thorold, Welland County, where her family lived. John and Elizabeth, my 2nd great-grandparents, married in 1848, in Niagara County, Canada West. Elizabeth died in the year of Canada’s Confederation, and was buried in Dunnville.

Elizabeth’s parents, George and Mary (Tyler) Emerson, 3rd great-grandparents, had come to Canada in 1836 with four children, including Elizabeth. They had six more in Thorold. Mary died in Thorold in 1845; George lived to 1880 and died in Dunnville in 1880.

The Newton and Margaret Thompson family came back to Canada in 1910, with my grandmother, Carrie Jane Thompson, who had been born in North Dakota in 1889. Their four living children came with them and all settled near Keoma, Alberta. Carrie met my grandfather, James Pearson Shepheard in Keoma, where he had emigrated from England in 1907. They married in Calgary, Alberta in 1914.

At the time of Canada’s Confederation, eleven of my direct ancestors, in three generations, lived in southern Upper Canada, which became the Province of Ontario. The lines eventually connected in North Dakota before coming home to Canada in the early part of the 20th century.

Gabrielle Rouleau dit Sansoucy 1618-1673 and down the line to his great great great great great grandson Amable Alexandre Rouleau born who then emigrated to America, changed the spelling of the last name to Roulo. …..